TCW vs. EFX, NOA, PSI, TVK, CEU, TOT, CFW, STEP, FCU, and OBE
Should you be buying Trican Well Service stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Trican Well Service include Enerflex (EFX), North American Construction Group (NOA), Pason Systems (PSI), TerraVest Industries (TVK), CES Energy Solutions (CEU), Total Energy Services (TOT), Calfrac Well Services (CFW), STEP Energy Services (STEP), Fission Uranium (FCU), and Obsidian Energy (OBE). These companies are all part of the "energy" sector.
Enerflex (TSE:EFX) and Trican Well Service (TSE:TCW) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, valuation, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
Trican Well Service has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Enerflex. Enerflex is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Trican Well Service, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Enerflex pays an annual dividend of C$0.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Trican Well Service pays an annual dividend of C$0.18 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. Enerflex pays out -11.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Trican Well Service pays out 32.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
Trican Well Service has a net margin of 12.44% compared to Trican Well Service's net margin of -3.51%. Enerflex's return on equity of 23.69% beat Trican Well Service's return on equity.
Enerflex has a beta of 1.82, indicating that its stock price is 82% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Trican Well Service has a beta of 1.82, indicating that its stock price is 82% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Enerflex currently has a consensus price target of C$11.50, suggesting a potential upside of 41.80%. Trican Well Service has a consensus price target of C$5.46, suggesting a potential upside of 26.20%. Given Trican Well Service's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Enerflex is more favorable than Trican Well Service.
In the previous week, Enerflex had 6 more articles in the media than Trican Well Service. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Enerflex and 1 mentions for Trican Well Service. Enerflex's average media sentiment score of 0.99 beat Trican Well Service's score of 0.43 indicating that Trican Well Service is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Trican Well Service received 74 more outperform votes than Enerflex when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 70.73% of users gave Enerflex an outperform vote while only 52.60% of users gave Trican Well Service an outperform vote.
60.7% of Enerflex shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 21.8% of Trican Well Service shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of Enerflex shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Trican Well Service shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Trican Well Service beats Enerflex on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
Get Trican Well Service News Delivered to You Automatically
Sign up to receive the latest news and ratings for TCW and its competitors with MarketBeat's FREE daily newsletter.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding TCW and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of TSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
Trican Well Service Competitors List
Related Companies and Tools
